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WEDNESDAY, 15 JUNE, 2016 TEPIN IS QUEEN FOR A DAY NO CATCHIN= TEPIN IN By Emma Berry QUEEN ANNE Ascot's Royal Enclosure has been in existence since 1822, when King George IV built a two-storey stand, primarily to entertain his friends, with access granted by his invitation only. Today, the Queen's first in command at the course, otherwise known as Her Majesty's Representative, is Johnny Weatherby, whose forebear James Weatherby was in Tepin and Julien Leparoux 1773 given permission by the Racing Post Jockey Club to publish the racing calendar. The family firm also oversees the General Stud Book and continues to be racing's administrator. Cont. p2 Julien Leparoux salutes aboard Tepin after she became the first IN TDN AMERICA TODAY international shipper to win the Queen Anne | Racing Post STAY THIRSTY FILLY TOPS OBS JUNE OPENER A filly from the second crop of Coolmore’s Stay Thirsty (Bernardini) fetched a bid of $180,000 to top Tuesday’s opening day of selling at She may have had much against her in theory ahead of the OBS June Sale in Central Florida. Tuesday=s G1 Queen Anne S., but Robert Masterson=s Tepin Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. (Bernstein) ripped up the Royal Ascot history books by becoming the first international challenger to prevail against the best of Europe=s milers in this prestigious affair. Allowed to slide to 11-2 with more heavy showers blighting the opening hours of the Royal meeting, the bay was forced to make her own running ahead of a small group racing away from the main action, which was headed by the Godolphin pacemaker Barchan (War Front). Niggled at approaching the final two furlongs, the reigning GI Breeders= Cup Mile heroine gave all in customary fashion and after, grinding her way to the front before the furlong pole, stayed on strongly to account for the soft-ground specialist and 9-2 joint-favourite Belardo (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) by a half length. AThis is amazing--a great feeling,@ jockey Julien Leparoux commented after his first European ride. AWe came here with a good chance and she overcame a lot of things today--she=s proved she=s a champion, as she had to work hard. The last 100 metres seemed a long way, but I=m glad she got it done.@ Cont. p4 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 JUNE, 2016 Emma Berry cont. He added, ABut we didn't know how soft the ground really In these customer-friendly days, it's likely that Weatherby was, how she would cope racing on the straight, or how she'd takes a more lenient view about who can and cannot enter the come up the hill. She had a lot of things to overcome." Royal Enclosure than that taken by one of his predecessors, But Tepin did overcome, and in the opening race of five Viscount Churchill, who became the first sensational days of action, America's Queen of the representative of the monarch at Ascot in Turf took the race named in honour of the British 1901 and was reported to divide applications monarch who first identified Ascot Heath as the into three piles: Certainly, Perhaps, Certainly perfect place to stage racing and brought the Not. sport to Berkshire a little over three hundred An absolute certainty at the modern-day years ago. Ascot is that there's nothing the course's Just half an hour before Tepin's victory, the international head-hunter Nick Smith loves present-day monarch, fresh from an extended more than an overseas winner of a big race. weekend of 90th birthday celebrations, had For years we've stared in wonder as Australian charted the same course, albeit in a horse-drawn sprinters have torn up the Ascot straight, but carriage, as part of a time-honoured tradition of this year we wondered how Tepin (Bernstein), the Royal Procession which has taken place every mighty though her six-straight win record year since 1825. Despite the fact that Prince coming into the Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall now have G1 Queen Anne S. was, would cope with a horses in training and several broodmares-- straight turf track softened by frequent Tepin | Racing Post with the homebred runners Carntop (GB) (Dansili deluges throughout the previous 24 hours. {GB}) and Pacify (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) entered to Tepin's owner Robert Masterson said as he greeted his majestic run at Ascot later in the week--there is still concern that the winner, "She had no drugs, no nasal strips, none of the things royal family's patronage of racing will dwindle in ensuing that everyone was worried about in the paper before the race. generations. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 JUNE, 2016 Emma Berry cont. At a less-sparkling level, but no less special was the victory of Newmarket trainer Charlie Fellowes, who, as the son of Baron the front-running hurdling mare Jennies Jewel (Ire) in the day's de Ramsey, is more formally known as the Hon. Charles staying contest, the Ascot S. In his days in training, her sire, the Fellowes, joined the procession for the first time, and it is Mill Ridge-bred Flemensfirth (Alleged), was a more than decent fervently hoped that in the drive through the Great Park from Flat horse, winning Group 1 races in France and Italy, while his Windsor Castle to Ascot racecourse he managed to convince his one appearance at Royal Ascot came in the G1 St James's Palace carriage companion and the Queen's grand-daughter, Princess S. of 1995. These days, the Beeches Stud resident is famed Beatrice of York, of the joys of racehorse ownership. throughout the National Hunt community as a provider of If the Queen Anne S. has its roots firmly in Ascot history, so too top-class jumping talent, his many good performers including does the G2 Coventry S., which is named after the 9th Earl of the GI Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Imperial Commander (Ire) and Coventry, a former Master of the Buckhounds--the managerial GI Lexus Chase winner Tidal Bay (Ire). He has few runners on the title predating Her Majesty's Representative. Flat, but the extended trip and soft ground played right into the The first juvenile group race of the English season is in danger of hands of the 9-year-old Jennies Jewel, who provided an being renamed in honour of Aidan O'Brien, who won it for the unforgettable day for small Irish trainer Jarlath Fahey and his eighth time with Caravaggio (Scat Daddy). Each of the first two young jockey Ronan Whelan. races of Royal Ascot will have had the American breeding "It's what dreams are made of," said Fahey after his first Royal industry rueing the premature death of a promising young Ascot win, while Tepin's trainer, Mark Casse, had said earlier in stallion. In the case of Scat Daddy, who died last December, the day, "I couldn't even dream anything like this." Caravaggio was a third 2-year-old Royal Ascot winner in four Whether it's a Group 1 or a handicap, there are few results years after No Nay Never and Acapulco. savoured more by owners and trainers than a winner at Royal For many, the most anticipated race of the whole week was Ascot. the G1 St James's Palace S. which, for the first time in 20 years, 'Like Nowhere Else' is the self-styled tagline for the meeting. brought together the winners of the English, Irish and French With its mix of pageantry, high fashion and superb racing, 2000 Guineas. Back in 1996, Ashkalani (Ire) (Soviet Star), there's no perhaps about it. It certainly is like nowhere else. Spinning World (Nureyev) and Mark Of Esteem (Ire) (Darshaan {GB}) could muster only second, sixth and Gary King: V.P. International Operations eighth-place finishes, Kelsey Riley: International Editor Emma Berry: European Editor but Tuesday's race Alan Carasso: Contributing Editor provided the perfect Heather Anderson: Contributing Editor clash of the Classic Daithi Harvey: Irish Correspondent A flying dismount from Frankie Dettori following titans, with Galileo Gold Sean Cronin & Tom Frary: Newmarket Bureau the St James=s Palace | Racing Post (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) Regular Columnists: Bill Oppenheim, Andrew Caulfield, being chased all the way to the line by The Gurkha (Ire) (Galileo John Berry, Chris McGrath, Kevin Blake {Ire}) and Awtaad (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) for a high-class trifecta. www.thetdn.com TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 17 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 15 JUNE, 2016 Queen Anne S. report cont. from p1 2--Belardo (Ire), 126, c, 4, Lope de Vega (Ire)--Danaskaya (Ire), by Danehill. (i100,000 Ylg >13 ARAUG). O-Godolphin & Prince Tuesday, Royal Ascot, Britain A A Faisal; B-Ballylinch Stud (IRE); T-Roger Varian. ,129,000. QUEEN ANNE S.-G1, ,600,000, ASC, 6-14, 4yo/up, 8fT, 1:43.98, sf. 3--Lightning Spear (GB), 126, h, 5, Pivotal (GB)--Atlantic Destiny 1--TEPIN, 123, m, 5, by Bernstein (Ire), by Royal Academy. (260,000gns Ylg >12 TAOCT). O-Qatar 1st Dam: Life Happened, by Stravinsky Racing Ltd; B-Newsells Park Stud (GB); T-David Simcock. 2nd Dam: Round It Off, by Apalachee ,64,560. 3rd Dam: Capp It Off, by Double Zeus Margins: HF, 1 1/4, 3/4. Odds: 5.50, 4.50, 20.00. ($140,000 Ylg >12 FTSAUG). O-Robert E Masterson; Also Ran: Toormore (Ire), Ervedya (Fr), Amazing Maria (Ire), Kodi B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-Mark Casse; J-Julien Leparoux.